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- ↑ Skull Gang. "SKULL GANG - Skull Gang - Amazon.com Music". Amazon. Retrieved 2022-09-24.
- ↑ E1 Entertainment: Skull Gang
- ↑ Artist Chart History. Billboard. Accessed August 9, 2007.
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